Honestly, this weblog has gotten worse and worse. The numbers in the poll are so counterintuitive that I followed them back to RT to try to figure out the margin of error and methodology, and — they don’t give you any, at all. But you guys put it up here, I suppose as more fodder to ignorantly bash Muslims for not acting as you have decided is best for their community. Surely we can agree that when you report something astonishing, and it’s quantitative, then it’s sloppy and careless not to at least look at the numbers?

Corlyss

I think you are mistaken about “Muslim” bashing here. Most object to violently extremist Muslims who, you must admit, have racked up far more kills of their co-religionists than any Western coalition or alliance.

FriendlyGoat

Most of the world’s people know it’s not “best for the Greek community” for any of the Greeks to insist that the rest of us bow to Zeus (and the gang of Greek gods) or die. The followers of Islam need to understand that the same thing now increasingly applies to them. They have been hoodooed into a falsehood and there is nothing sensible to do but abandon it.

jeburke

Nonsence. AI warns appropriately about the source. But even if RT’s pollster is way, way off and “only” five percent of the French support ISIS, that’s an appalling level of support.

Corlyss

“and should prod moderate Muslims to emphatically condemn jihadism.”

Are you kidding? Moderate Muslims are more scared of the ISIS lot than the rest of us are. They KNOW what those guys would do to them if the moderates leaned forward in the foxhole.

FriendlyGoat

No non-Muslim should be concerned at all with “Islam’s image”, since the whole thing is a colossal fib from beginning to end—-period. As a recent poster here pointed out, you won’t be seeing many “moderates” doing much denouncing because they can’t—-while retaining Mohammad, the Quran and the Hadiths. The IS nuts are actually practicing Islam, and the choice for moderates (in free places) is to vote with their feet and bail out. There is no such thing as following Mohammad “a little bit” and IS is making that clear.

Andrew Allison

The results correlate quite closely with the percentage of the population of each country’s residents who are Muslim, suggesting that most Muslims support ISIS. Time to call a spade a spade?

Fat_Man

“Vehement denunciations of this trend by other Muslims can help undo the damage that polls like this do to Islam’s image.”

A quick note: the first figure is 27%, not 7% – the quotation cut off the first numeral.

gabrielsyme

It’s hard to understand how the poll in respect to France is accurate, unless nearly all Muslims support ISIS in France and the number of Muslims in France have been significantly underestimated.

It is sad to say, but the presence of large Sunni populations in Western countries looks increasingly like a poison within the various nations. Let’s not forget that 2% of Germany implies something around a 50% approval rate among Muslims; and a 7% approval rate in the UK implies an even higher approval rate among Muslims. Let us hope that this poll is highly flawed – but ICM is highly respected, and clearly more work needs to be done to understand the threat within.

vrichards

Russia Today definitely has more credibility than this website. What makes you think otherwise?